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The Benefits of a Chief Transformation Officer for Growth

N2Growth Blog

To tackle these issues, for the past five years, the new trend in executive hiring has been the Chief Transformation Officer (CTO) role. This is where the CTO role gets into the spotlight. This is an arduous task, especially if the CTO doesn’t hold the proper authority or have the support of the Executive Board.

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Learning The Keys To Exceptional Execution

Tanveer Naseer

They run app companies, consultancies, clinics and sprawling technology corporations. Four Argentinian business people wanted to make their country a technology hub during a financial crisis when the peso was devalued, even though they had no business plan, the country had no history in technology, and they had only $5000 in capital.

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How Technical Debt Opens the Door to Cyber Attacks—and Steps to Protect Your Small Business

Strategy Driven

As technology has evolved over time from main frame to client server to the Internet and now the cloud, the impact of a new Tech Debt 2.0 CEOs and CFOs managing technology may not recognize tech debt building up in their SMBs—because it is not revealed in monthly variance reports or other accounting controls.

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11 Ideas for Economic Recovery

Strategy Driven

Each issue is packed with thought-provoking content and insight into the business issues that affect all companies competing in today’s technology-driven marketplace with recent contributions by best-selling author and researcher Tom Davenport; social media guru Chris Brogan; and Myron Scholes, world renowned economist and Nobel Prize winner.

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How Self-Managed Teams Can Resolve Conflict

Harvard Business Review

First and foremost, self-managed teams must commit to openly discussing their differences. This mode of conflict resolution is akin to the “blameless postmortem” approach much of the technology world takes to understand why products and endeavors don’t reach their full potential.

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Leadership: A Global Perspective

N2Growth Blog

” Be represents your attributes ( i.e., loyalty, selflessness, commitment,etc. ). Our last stop on this quest was to travel from Morocco to New Delhi, India, to meet our CTO, Jitendra Singh , his development team and members of the executive search team. Dan and I wanted to perform one last act of servant leading. Conclusion.

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To Drive Digital Transformation, Focus on People

Strategy Driven

Businesses from top global firms to main street staples are looking into a future driven by new technology capabilities. Alignment Teams must work in a way that gets the best input from all members, and gains understanding and commitment around common goals, schedules, methods, and decisions/directions of all kinds. He lives in St.

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